Yearly Archives: 2013

Winter Garden, - August 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Representatives Daniel Webster (R-FL), John Carney (D-DE), Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT), and Rep. Joe Heck (R-NV) announced the introduction of H.R. 2929, the “Creating Homeownership Opportunities Act,” bipartisan legislation that would create a pre-tax savings program -- similar to a Health Savings Account -- for the purpose of saving toward a down payment on a first home.

Tallahassee, FL - August 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford (R-Wesley Chapel) today appointed former State Representative Gary Aubuchon to the Board of Governors for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation. Aubuchon’s appointment is effective today

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 31, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Alan Grayson (FL-09) has passed an amendment that increases funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Limited English Proficiency (LEP) translation program by 50%. Grayson successfully amended H.R. 2610, the ‘Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014’ last night on the House Floor.

EUGENE, OR - July 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. is pleased to welcome Lindsey Fowkes, of Prudential Tropical Realty, to the growing team of real estate agents and brokers choosing to create an easy-to-use professional website, Using IDX Broker’s software, Fowke’s online market presence can now be seamlessly blended with the thousands of listings that are updated daily on the Mid Florida Regional MLS (MFRMLS) listing service. The customizable IDX solution the software provides gives realtors, like Fowkes, a unique professional branding, making their real estate websites more popular and efficient

EUGENE, OR - July 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- With a growing number of real estate professionals choosing to update and simplify their real estate website, IDX, Inc. is pleased to announce the newest addition of Kathleen Fineman of Boca Raton Real Estate Experts. Palm Beach Regional MLS (RMLSFL) listings are now integrated with Fineman’s own listings on her real estate website, to deliver her clients with the most comprehensive property search available online. The innovative Internet Data Exchange (IDX) technology provided by IDX Broker and now available on Fineman’s website makes searching for a home simpler than ever

EUGENE, OR - July 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. happily welcomes the addition of IDX Broker to Berger Realty Group’s very own Angela Gonzalez of Coral Springs, Florida’s website. Gonzalez, with the use of this modernized and enhanced IDX service, is now able to easily and quickly provide property listing information to prospective home buyers, without the previously required time and investment. This custom IDX solution takes care of pulling the raw listing data from her local Multiple Listing Service (MLS), the Fort Lauderdale MLS (RAGFL), and prominently displays the listing information in a user-friendly and easy-to-navigate format on Gonzalez’s site, for home seekers to pursue

EUGENE, OR - July 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of Coastal Sotheby’s International Realty’s agent, Allison Whitley-Maffei, to the growing number of real estate professionals changing the way they sell houses online. Through the IDX Broker software now available on Whitley-Maffei’s website, home seekers surrounding Palm Beach Gardens, Florida can now easily find the perfect property. As a member of Palm Beach Regional MLS (RMLSFL), Whitley-Maffei has access to thousands of properties. These listings can now be displayed with the click of a mouse on Whitley-Maffei’s website, giving potential home buyers more control over their property search

EUGENE, OR - July 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. is pleased to announce that Sunny Isles Beach, Florida realtor Victoria Fisher has joined the growing number of real estate professionals revolutionizing the way people buy homes online. Her website offers clients the unique ability to search for their dream home from their own personal computers. Thanks to Fisher’s real estate website, potential home buyers have the ability to search through all of the properties listed on the Southeast Florida MLS (SEFL), in an effort to find their perfect property. Only Best Properties Realty’s partnership with the SEFL helps Fisher to display thousands of homes directly onto her website, granting home seekers license to look at specific details of homes surrounding the Sunny Isles Beach area.

EUGENE, OR - July 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. eagerly announces today the addition of the custom IDX Broker search tool application to the website of Wendy Rulnick Hinzman with Rulnick Realty Inc. in Miramar Beach, Florida. Cross has chosen to incorporate this IDX solution as a means to connect prospective home buyers with thousands of property listings and details within her local multiple Listing Service (MLS), the Emerald Coast MLS (ECARMLS). Home seekers will not only have immediate and direct access to a plethora of high demand property information, but they will also be able to utilize unique and user-friendly search features, aiding in narrowing their search results, in efforts to find their truly ideal home

EUGENE, OR - July 15, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Luis Gomez with Majestic Properties has recently employed IDX, Inc. to give the search feature of his website an advantage over his competitors, by incorporating a custom IDX solution. A Miami, Florida resident, Gomez now has the ability to display his local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) information, coming directly from the Southeast Florida (SEFL), on his own personal website. Home seekers browsing the Miami area will not only have immediate access to an infinite amount of the most up-to-date property listings on the market, but they will also be able to utilize comprehensive search options that will help to narrow their results, creating an overall much more efficient and simple online real estate search experience

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 12, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congresswoman Lois Frankel (FL-22) welcomed news that the Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded grants to United Way of Broward in Fort Lauderdale and Faith, Hope, Love, Charity, Inc. (Stand Down House) in Palm Springs. Both of these community organizations serve homeless and at-risk veterans as well as their families in South Florida

EUGENE, OR - July 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The newest real estate professional selecting IDX, Inc. to host the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) search function on his website is Corey Cabral with Downing Frye Real Estate Inc. in Naples, Florida. This innovative Internet Data Exchange (IDX) addition supplies Cabral with the tools to provide potential home buyers with the most comprehensive, simple and efficient online real estate search possible. IDX Broker works by extracting raw listing data from the Sunshine MLS (SSMLS), and formats the information to be viewed as though it is seamlessly integrated into his site

Fort Lauderdale, FL - July 10, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Cohen Commercial Properties (CCP) has tapped Stiles Realty and Stiles Property Management to lease and manage Shoppes at Boca Greens, a 109,228-square-foot retail shopping center in the highly affluent residential neighborhood of West Boca Raton, Florida.

Tampa, FL - June 28, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- – Jonathan Hipp, President & CEO of Calkain Companies and Dan Shannon of Morgan Stanley literally rolled out the red carpet for the exclusive event An Evening of Giving, Networking and Beautiful Fast Cars held on June 20 at Ferrari of Washington in Dulles, Virginia. Over $5,000 was raised to benefit local charities Backpack Buddies of Loudoun County, Humane Society of Loudoun County, and the Virginia Chapter of Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

EUGENE, OR - June 27, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. and Bonita Springs, Florida Realtor Ryan Chiodo have teamed up to revolutionize the online real estate search process for home seekers. The convenient IDX enabled website Chiodo hosts has been integrated with the dynamic IDX Broker software, which seamlessly extracts and displays thousands of detailed property listings from Sunshine MLS (SSMLS), directly on the website of Chiodo.

TALLAHASSEE, FL - June 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Pam Bondi released the following statement on the National Mortgage Settlement Monitor’s Report concerning the Monitor’s review of the banks’ compliance with the settlement’s servicing standards.

Washington, DC - June 14, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Cong. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) is pleased that the House has passed the Reverse Mortgage Stabilization Act (H.R. 2167) which provides more protections for seniors using the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) Reverse Mortgage loan protection program.

EUGENE, OR - June 12, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, IDX, Inc. announces John Sekely as the latest real estate professional to join the growing network of agents and brokers who have chosen to update their websites with IDX Broker software. Sekely, a Barefoot Beach, Florida agent, has adopted a customizable IDX solution for his dynamic search page, automatically synchronizing it with thousands of Sunshine MLS (SSMLS) listings. Home seekers can now experience a revolutionary online property search by utilizing the IDX enabled search functions Sekely hosts

Miami, FL - June 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- CBRE arranged the sale of America’s Gateway, a 306,924-square-foot industrial complex in Doral, Florida, for $23,725,000. CBRE’s Capital Markets Institutional Group represented the seller. CBRE has also been retained by the buyer to handle Property Leasing and Management

EUGENE, OR - June 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today IDX, Inc. and John Pelling are pleased to announce the integration of IDX Broker software onto the website of Pelling, giving potential Naples, Florida buyers a completely new resource for finding their dream home online. With his own customizable IDX solution, Pelling has updated the search capabilities of his professional website, making it monumentally easier to manage. While his IDX synced website makes his job simpler, it simultaneously eases the complications home seekers experience throughout many online real estate searches. The IDX enabled search tools Pelling supplies to his clients makes it so simple to find the perfect Florida home without ever leaving the convenience of his website